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Dan Ingram Q104.3 May 2005

This was Dan Ingram's final appearance doing a regular music show on NYC radio. After Scott Muni passed away, Q 104.3 had different DJ's and celebrities come in to do the show at Noon Scottso had. One noon time in May 2005 brought the voice of Dan Ingram to Q 104.3. Actually it was an edited half hour from a Beatles special Dan did a year or so earlier. Nevertheless, as a stand alone element it was most likely Big Dan's final DJ performance.

Dan shares some stories on this aircheck back from the Beatlemania days and does what he always did best...have fun.

Cut Time - 28:00

This unscoped aircheck comes with two special features as extra cuts. You'll also get Dan's closing theme that he used all those years on WABC. This is just the music (Tri-Fi Drums by the Billy May Orchestra) without Dan talking over it. This is the original edit as created by Dan...NOT a reproduction as some others have tried to do. This came straight off the cart from WABC.

You'll also get a scoped aircheck of Big Dan on WABC in 1961 just months after he arrived there. The jingles are different, the reverb's not there yet but Ingram is still Ingram.

Cut Time - 17:00

Total Time - 45:00
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Scott Muni WOR-FM October 1966

This isn't just the start of a format on a radio station but most radio historians say it's the start of a format...period. This is an aircheck of Scott Muni's first day on WOR-FM in NYC from October 1966. WOR-FM was the first progressive station in NYC which many said gave the format the recognition it needed. This was Muni's return to radio after leaving WABC during the Beatlemania days. The legend is that Louis Armstrong's record Hello Dolly hit #1 on the playlist and that meant WABC was to play it once an hour. Muni wanted that song off of his show. It was Muni who wound up leaving WABC.

The progressive format actually started a few months earlier on WOR-FM but due to a DJ strike it went without DJ's until this day.

This aircheck features Muni playing and singing the praises of the music not being heard anywhere else. He previews the other new DJ's still to come later that day and night including Murray The K and Roscoe. The middle of the aircheck feature midday DJ Johnny Michaels and then it's back to Muni for his afternoon show. There are some commercials still complete on this aircheck. The fantastic part is the aircheck itself. There are so few examples of this era of radio history out there, especially at a length like this.

As a special bonus you'll also get a short clip of Muni with Dan Ingram on the air on WABC in 1964 at the Warwick Hotel with the Beatles as 10,000 kids listening on their transitor radios sing along to some WABC jingles.

Total Time - 31:00
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Alison Steele WNEW-FM February 1969

Here's an unscoped example of the still growing early days of FM Progressive Radio. You'll hear Alison Steele doing an overnight show in the style that made her great, memorable and one of the pioneering women of radio.

At this point in time WNEW-FM was calling itself "The New Groove." Alison mixes music, poetry and her ideas in her special way. The commercials, including a live read for a Vanilla Fudge concert where tickets were $6.95, are all here too. There's also a five minute newscast (which starts with the WNEW-AM news sounder) that has stories on that night's NYC snow emergency, the latest from Vietnam, a U.S. plane hijacked to Cuba and sports with the ABA basketball scores.

Very little of the early days of the growth of FM exists. This is one of those rare examples.

Total Time - 55:27
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John Lennon (with Dennis Elsas) WNEW-FM September 1974

This is a fantastic piece of NYC radio and Beatles history.

This aircheck is from September 28, 1974. John Lennon appeared as a guest DJ on WNEW-FM for two hours with the on air DJ Dennis Elsas. Lennon was promoting his new album Walls & Bridges. John plays a couple of the cuts from his new album along with some of his favorite records that he brought to the studio with him.

John talks about his music, The Beatles, his life as it was at the time and his immigration problems. He also does some really funny DJ breaks reading the weather and live commercials.

The majority of it is unscoped so you get the complete songs. However, the commercial breaks are cut out. Some airchecking takes place toward the end which came about in an affort to get this originally on one 90 minute casette tape.

Total Time - 75:00
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John Zacherle WNEW-FM October 1982

This is an unscoped two hour 2 CD recording of a special evening during a special celebration at WNEW-FM in New York City.

During October of 1982, when WNEW-FM was celebrating their 15th anniversary as a Rock station, they brought back some of their original DJ's to do special shows. This item features John Zacherle on his one night return to WNEW-FM the evening of October 28, 1982.

You'll hear Zacherle play the records he played back in his days of the mid to late 1960's. He also tells some stories from those days.

This isn't Zacherle in his Dinner With Drac Halloween character many remember from TV horror films. Zacherle was one of the great early FM DJ's first at WNEW-FM and later at WPLJ-FM.

This two hour trip back in time will let you hear what the early days of FM Rock Radio sounded like thanks to the talents of one of the originals...John Zacherle.

Total Time - 120:00
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John Zacherle WCBS-FM October 1988

This is an unscoped 30 minute CD of John Zacherle doing one of his Halloween radio specials on WCBS-FM in 1988. This captures the last half hour of his evening.

Zacherle, along with being a legendary TV horror film host, was also a pioneering FM DJ first with WNEW-FM and later with WPLJ. However, on this Halloween night, Zacherle brought all the horrors and fun with his music and talent to WCBS-FM.

In addition to Zacherle doing his thing you'll hear some pretty odd music since this was Halloween night. Remember Boris Pickett and The Monster Rap?

Total Time - 30:00
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John Zacherle WCBS-FM October 1999

This is a 2 CD 2 hour unscoped aircheck set featuring John Zacherle The Cool Ghoul doing his 1999 Halloween special on New York City's WCBS-FM.

This was the yearly show that let Zacherle meld his TV Horror Host personna with his free form DJ skills to create a show everyone grew to get excited for. Along with Zacherle at his best, you also get some of the most unusual Halloween related music you rarely ever hear on the radio.

Total Time - 125:00
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Harry Harrison WCBS-FM April 1980

Here's a CD that features the return of a legend to NYC radio.

Just months after WABC fired him from the morning show, Harry Harrison started what was to be a more than twenty year stay at WCBS-FM. This is an unscoped recording of his first half hour back on the air. After he gets used to running his own board controls, Harry doesn't sound like he had lost a step.

Total Time - 30:00
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Ron Lundy WCBS-FM March 1984

This is a 2 CD set featuring the return of one of NYC radio's legends to the air.

Ron Lundy, a longtime star on WABC, was left without a job when the station switched to talk in 1982. This unscoped CD set features Ron Lundy sitting in for Harry Harrison on WCBS-FM in March of 1984. It was the first time Ron's voice was heard on NYC radio since WABC.

Not only do you get to hear Ron Lundy do AM Drive but you also get to hear one of the best ever oldies stations in it's prime.

The first CD features Ron Lundy's first 45 minutes on the air. The second CD features his final 45 minutes from that morning.

Total Time - 90:00
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Dr. Jerry Carroll WPIX-FM April 1977

WPIX-FM was known in the NYC area for a few things. There was the time it spent as an alternative music station. Then there was the love song format. In fact, the station tried so many things it bacame known as "The Format Of The Month Station."

Whatever the case, WPIX did give rise to some radio names of note. Among those are Mark Simone, who's now a talk host on WABC, and Jerry Carroll who you'll hear on this unscoped CD example of when WPIX was a Top 40 station with a bit of disco and dance music included.

You'll hear Dr. Jerry doing the 6 a.m. hour of his morning show in April of 1977 on the station that was billing itself as "New York's Music Leader." The style of WPIX-FM gives quite the contrast to what Carroll was up against on WABC and WNBC. There's a lot of music for the morning. There's still a newscast featuring stories on Jimmy Carter, Patty Hearst, Howard Hughes and the Equal Rights Amendment.

This is an excellent example of the variety that was available on the NYC radio dial in the mid-70's.

Total Time - 62:00
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WXLO-FM 99X (September 1973/December 1975)

Here are two great examples of the first FM station that gave WABC some competition for the Top 40 audience.

The first track is unscoped from September 1973. It features Walt Baby Love followed by Dave Thompson counting down the top hits of 1970. This was from their pre-99X days when they just referred to the station as WXLO.

Cut Time - 41:47

The second unscoped cut has Jo Jo Morales from December of 1975 winding up the countdown of the top hits of 1972.

Where WABC was loud, 99X was louder. Where WABC DJ's were fast, the 99X jocks were faster.

This is a prime example of a part of the NYC FM sound in the early to mid 1970's.

Cut Time - 25:00
Total Time - 66:47
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Z-100 First Day On The Air August 1983

Not only was this the launch of a new format on 100.3 FM in NYC but it also marked the return of Top 40 radio to the city. This unscoped aircheck features a 20 minute signal test which started that morning at 5 featuring a few songs. A tone then begins (edited out on this CD) and then at 6:00 a.m. WHTZ-FM is officially born.

This item features Scott Shannon and JR Nelson doing the first hour of their morning show in what was later revealed to be a studio with the bare essentials. They literally sat around a folding table doing their show.

This CD concludes with the final ten minutes of that first day when they signed off the air at Midnight.

Two things that stand out on the item is that Scott Shannon used his full name Michael Scott Shannon. The second is that the slogan Z-100 was used yet.

Z-100 was the station that shocked radio by going from worst to first in the ratings in six months. This is where it all began.

Total Time - 80:00
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